Dukakis: Race would be more competitive if Trump wasn't running

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The former Massachusetts governor called Trump a "head case"

"It's really bizarre," Dukakis said

Washington (CNN)Former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis said Hillary Clinton would be in a tighter race if she were running against a more mainstream Republican.

"It would be a contest and what it would be however is a contest in which issues and ideas and the country's future would be debated and discussed the way you want a campaign to discuss them," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day."

"And we wouldn't be discussing the sexual habits of this head case who won the Republican nomination and is running for the presidency."

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